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Comme des Garçons is celebrated for its ever-growing line of unconventional fragrances and respected for its collaborations with leading creatives. The company’s latest release is a fragrance created in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan. Having followed Chalayan’s career since his graduation from Central Saint Martin’s in 1993, Rei Kawakubo and her husband Adrian Joffe have since…

Fall 2011 may have been the most action-packed Fashion Week in the history of action-packed Fashion Weeks: So says Hint Mag. Why? Dominatrix Effect: for fall several designers dove headfirst into the dungeon, sending out a seemingly endless parade of fashion dominatrixes outfitted for every taste imaginable. These ranged from Maison Martin Margiela’s intellectual doms,…

Long before Muccia Prada initiated â€œMade Inâ€ to educate consumers and designers about craftsmanship and artisan skills, Japanese designer Hiroki Nakamura used product education as a catalyst for his brand Visvim. Releasing two collections a year each submitted with a dissertation, Nakamuraâ€™s idea is connected to an academic approach of discovery, emphasizing the new materials…

Sure, Daphne Guinness is the patron saint of haute couture and impractical footwear, but a new profile in New York magazine digs beneath the layers of tulle and embroidery to uncover not a just a bored heiress, but a true eccentric. A few revelations explain a great deal about the latter-day icon, such as her…

London interior designers Studio Toogood have installed a pile of boxes decorated with multi-coloured electrical tape at the Comme des Garcons Aoyama flagship store in Tokyo. The project is Studio Toogood’s second cooperation with the fashion label, following their Sneaker department at Dover Street Market in London last year. Inspired by the deconstructed plaids found…

We are really looking forward to receive these beautiful premium leather wallets by Comme Des Garcons, soon to be available at 4. It’s a more luxury departure for CDG accessories. Check them out at 4 from September 2010! Image source: Highsnobiety

For it’s new fragrance, Wonderwood, Comme des GarÃ§ons has created a veryÂ enigmaticÂ short film. The featurette, directed by the English duo Brothers Quay, tells the tale of a man who â€œloved trees more than words could say.â€ In typical Comme style, this translates into a hallucinogenic stop-motion journey featuring a busy woodpecker, wood sprites, parquet flooring…

To mark the launch of Comme des Garcons’ latest fragrance ‘Wonderwood’, the Quay Brothers produced a film of the same name whichÂ was screened in London for the first time last night. ForÂ those curious about the new CDG scent,Â ‘Wonderwood’ is made up ofÂ Oud, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Cypress wood and Gaiac wood with notes of Patchouli, vetyver,…

Undercover, the ‘cult label’ of designer Jun Takahashi has launched a debut duo of fragrances with Comme des GarconsÂ called ‘Holygrace’ and ‘Holygrapie’. Holygrace is described as “a perfume of elegance, soap freshness and poison” whilst HolygrapieÂ reflects “the smell of babies, kindness and sensuality”. Â This fragrance is available at 4 soon, please reserve ‘immediatement’ to…

Yours truly,Â a certain hardworkingÂ intrepid 4 correspondent was in NY recently and stayed at The Ace Hotel which we can definitely recommend. We were there the very sameÂ day the hotel opened it’s very own ‘travel’Â Opening Ceremony store, as well as Project 8’s creation No. 8a. We attended the party of course and indeedÂ became the second O.C.…